Friday, May 12, 2006

American Immigrants Look For Jobs In India

Latest twist on immigration is this.....Americans might be the newest immigrants as more Americans look for jobs in India and (coming soon) China. Turns out 100 engineering grads in the US recently took jobs at Infosys in India to "get experience". Hey, didn't that used to be the other way around? Interesting....

"Nate Linkon graduated from college last year with a business degree and a lot of offers. But he made an unusual choice: to pack his bags and move 9,000 miles away from corporate America to Bangalore. In his view, there’s no better place to beef up his résumé — even though the pay is much lower.
“Yeah, I kind of look at it like a career trajectory,” said Linkon, 22, of Milwaukee. “You do this and you set yourself up for bigger things than you would making four times what I make now in Chicago or New York.”